Meaning of amphistomous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a sucker or opening at each extremity.
   not-comparable
2. Having stomata on both surfaces of the leaf.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Some entozoa are amphistomous.”

“They would even strip off the amphistomous worms which literally live in the stomachs of all cattle in this region, and, without more ado, put them raw into their mouths by the handful.”

“In many a pylom occurs also at the aboral pole, so that the shell, perforated by a mouth at both poles of the principal axis, acquires an amphistomous character.”

“Some shells of an amphistomous Rhizopod were observed from near Recess, W. Ireland, which probably pertained to this genus. The shells were chitinoid, yellow in colour, and each aperture was situated on a slight protuberance.”

“Arendt and coworkers propose that the blastopore in this species is amphistomous, giving rise to both mouth and anus.”

“Contrary to the view of Cable (1974), we do not consider larvae of this species as amphistomous.”

“Adaxial and abaxial surfaces of three taxa of the Acutae group in the Pacific Northwest (C. aquatilis, C. lenticularis, and C. nebrascensis) are not differentiated (the amphistomous condition) .”

“For most amphistomous leaves, the correct value for g_(lw) is between those given by Equations 11.24 and 11.25 (Moreshet et al., 1968).”

“Parkhurst et al. (1988) showed that gradients of more than 50 μbar CO₂ are common in amphistomous leaves of C₃ plants.”

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